OVER 500 students of Afiesere Grammar School in Ughelli, Delta State, yesterday morning embarked on a protest over the purported death of two of their students on ‘okada’ on their way to school.
Crown FC of Ogbomosho have promised its fans a swift return in the Nigerian Premier League. Last season Crown FC, Zamfara United and JUTH FC and Plateau United were relegated after finishing in the last four.
As Nigerians await the decision of the organization and disciplinary sub-committee of the Nigerian Football Federation to pass its verdict on the purported match fixing involving some teams in the premier league, Nigerian Premier League Congressman, Samuel Aindigh has said that the ruling is not for Lobi Stars but for Nigerian football.
Lobi Stars’ striker, Adikwu Gabriel has lamented the inability of the Makurdi side to clinch a continental ticket next season.
There was a time when Nigerians actually enjoyed politics. The rules were clear, though some of them were still being developed to keep up with the fast pace of our development as a nation.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has disclosed that 124 policemen died in encounters with armed robbers between January 2007 and September 2011.
Indeed, the saying that health is wealth is not an understatement. When you lead a very busy and hectic lifestyle, you tend to take a lot of things for granted, like our complete physical and mental well being. With each passing day, we wake up and get ready to face the daily grind of our different professions, family life etc.
A widow’s life in Nigeria is sometimes like a fairy tale. Only those who have experienced it know it and those who hear sometimes take it as just another story. In this edition, Saturday Vanguard visited a widow’s association in Lagos and got them to share their experiences as widows.
President Goodluck Jonathan bared his fangs two days ago by announcing the unceremonious removal of the EFCC chairperson, Mrs. Farida Waziri in a manner that defeats the anti-corruption crusade. Under the universal rules governing anti-corruption, you cannot hire and fire anybody just like that; trying to use corruption to fight corruption, without stating the reason for the removal.
The Games and Sports secretary of the Apapa Club, Dozie Udeze has stated that the first edition of the clubs’ Games bank-rolled by Oando will revive the club’s sporting activity.
IGBO Youth Movement, IYM has advised the Federal Government to address the problems of youth unemployment if it must win the war against Boko Haram Islamic sect in the country.
There are many families in Nigeria that qualify as “Old Money”. They are “Old Money” simply because the wealth of the families has lasted more than one generation. The term typically describes a class of the super-rich, who have been able to maintain their wealth across multiple generations.
All the six Nollywood practitioners who recently bagged National Honours will be celebrated at this month’s edition of O’jez Entertainment Forum awards series scheduled to hold this Sunday, at the celebrity hangout, O’jez, in Surulere, Lagos.
The coast is now cleared for the highly anticipated second edition of Nigerian Broadcasters Awards (NBA). The yearly event that is being packaged by The Reality Entertainment is now scheduled for Sunday, December 11, at the prestigious Lagoon Restaurant Ozumba Mbadiwe street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
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